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Welcome to 1100 Pennsylvania, a newsletter devoted to President Donald Trump’s Trump Hotel International Washington, D.C. (and his other companies). President Trump, of course, still owns his businesses and can profit from them.

If you like what you see, tell someone. If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter, subscribe for yourself at zacheverson.substack.com.Tips or feedback? Contact me, Zach Everson, securely via email at 1100Pennsylvania@protonmail.com or on Signal at 202.804.2744.

Spa by Ivanka Trump Instagram accounts debut

When the D.C. hotel promotes its spa on social media, it usually avoids using the proper name: The Spa by Ivanka Trump. On Twitter, for example, it appears to have used the full name just twice.

Ivanka Trump, of course, now works in the White House as an advisor to the president, her father and fellow hotel co-owner.

The Trump Hotel Vancouver is home to the only other Spa by Ivanka Trump; the thespabyivankatrumpvancouver Instagram account just debuted seven days ago. (The hotel has been less reluctant to promote its spa by name on Twitter.)

While Ivanka was involved with the company’s spas in her role as Trump Organization executive vice president, the D.C. and Vancouver spas are the first to which her own name has been attached.

In early 2016, your new favorite publication, Spa Business, reported The Spa by Ivanka Trump would be “rolled out across Trump’s nine existing hotels, as well as future properties." Other than D.C. and Vancouver, there’s no evidence of this rollout though. When I sought comment from Ivanka on the brand and its expansion plans last year while researching a feature article on the hotel for Condé Nast Traveler, a publicist replied, “Ivanka Trump has taken a leave of absence from the Trump Organization and no longer has any connection to the spa.” (This turns out to be only partially true, of course: While she may no longer take part in operational decision-making, Ivanka's ownership stake in the D.C. hotel has paid her $2.4 million from its opening to June 2017).

A follow-up request at the time to interview someone—anyone—at the Trump Organization about spa plans went unanswered. While silence is their right, of course, it’s rare to find a spa publicist not willing to talk to Condé Nast Traveler.

The D.C. hotel’s managing director, Mickael Damelincourt, and spokespeople for both the Trump Org and its D.C. hotel have not replied to an email asking to verify the Instagram account’s authenticity and, if it is legit, why they chose to start promoting the spa by name now and if doing so means that Ivanka’s increasing her involvement in the business.

One thing that has nothing to do with Trump’s businesses (I think, tough to tell sometimes!)

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